That's Thomas Edison of course, on having to try apparently 10,000 different filament materials before he discovered carbonized bamboo fiber worked the best. I've seen it worded a few different ways - I've used my own slightly altered wording that I think works a bit better.
I'm in sort of the same place right now, though I've only 'failed' twice at drawing the Reilly head abstractions from memory. Or, as I prefer to think of it, I've identified the problem and now can begin on the solution.
Fortunately, I have Jack Faragasso's book Mastering Drawing the Human Figure, which does overcomplicate the abstractions, but presents them in a very precise way that's easy to understand. It's about hearing it put the way you need to hear it. The book by itself made it all too complicated and i wasn't sure how to simplify it, and the Watts approach left me not sure what all the lines were (until I consulted the book). But they taste great together like peanut butter and chocolate!
Yeah, I won't be posting pics today...
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